Tyne and Wear HER(1415): Newcastle, Roman building-stone - Details
1415
Newcastle
Newcastle, Roman building-stone
Newcastle
NZ26SE NZ26NE
Architecture
Architectural Fragment
Architectural Fragment
Roman
Find
A pair of squared stones, "resembling those of which the gateways of the mile-castles on the Wall were built", was found in or before 1807 in a garden wall at Heaton Flint Mill. The inscribed one of the two stones, 25 x 19 inches, was presented to the Society of Antiquaries by Sir Matthew White Ridley Bart. Inscribed: c(enturia) Iuli Numisia/ni Vlpius Can/alius / et L(ucius) Groutius “From the century of Julius Numisianus Ulpius Canalius and Lucius Groutius (cut this)”
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66896
NZ2551766896
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